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South Korea and Japan are considering sharing radar information on North Korean missile launches in real time, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday, as Pyongyang stepped up missile launches in recent months.

Despite being allies of the United States, South Korea and Japan did not have a direct security partnership during the Cold War. During the Korean War, South Korean President Syngman Rhee threatened to shoot Japanese forces first if they arrived to “help” Korea from the communist invasion. Japan, officially a pacifist state with “self-defense forces,” also did not affirm its security commitment to the neighboring democracy. The two countries animosities over past history and their relian...

BEIRUT: New Year’s Eve festivities in Lebanon may not go off with quite the same bang as in previous years if the government has its way. Lebanese who enjoy ringing in the new year with celebratory gunfire are in the government’s sights amid a security crackdown, with one minister taking aim at what he described as “delinquent and criminal acts.” Caretaker Interior Minister

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“The Korean crisis contributes to the general dynamic of militarization underway on the Eurasian continent and in the Indo-Pacific, with its attendant humanitarian disasters, from Ukraine to Burma, as it contributes to the acceleration of global warming that has spiralled out of control.”

The U.S. should respond firmly to a North Korean missile launch, which would be yet another defiance of United Nations resolutions.

South Korea should include Japan in planning and preparations for Korean reunification.

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Lebanon’s security forces have reportedly arrested a Lebanese man on suspicion of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and collaboration with Israeli officials.

Lebanon’s security forces have reportedly arrested a Lebanese man on suspicion of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and collaboration with Israeli officials.